In Part ONE of Lori's interview with Sean McBride, Sean talks about overcoming self-doubts and depression, rescuing children and women from sex trafficking, becoming a Buddhist Monk, and learning to fly.
Sean is an evolutionary anthropologist with a special interest in the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and its impact on contemporary human behaviour. He holds a 1st class honours degree in Anthropology and has undertaken field research with Aboriginal people in Australia, the Sami of Lapland, the Bedouin of Jordan and the Lahu of Thailand.
He is a recognised expert in Aboriginal ethno-ecology and his past interests involved the teaching of Aboriginal skills for 22 years through his own survival school in Australia, and internationally for the general public, outdoor guides, foreign military and Australian Special Forces. He is a former Green Beret commando and Australian
Army officer. In 2001 Sean was asked to be the survival consultant for Channel Nine’s Australian Survivor. He was also the Games and Challenges designer for the show.
In 2004 he went to Thailand to rescue children from prostitution and from there set up The Grey Man organization to continue that work serving as its president till 2012. His organization rescued over 170 women and children from trafficking and prevented the trafficking of an estimated 600 more. He continues to work behind the scenes in this field.
He stepped down as president of The Grey man in 2012 and in 2013 was ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk. His long-term interest in Antarctica was fulfilled in 2018 when he spent eight days camped on the Ross Ice Shelf and came away from that experience with a desire to protect Antarctica. He runs the Captain Antarctica Facebook page, Captain Antarctica Tribe Facebook group and the Captain Antarctica website, where he posts regular updates about the history, science and wildlife of Antarctica. His long-term plan is to fly an electric aircraft from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole to demonstrate the benefits of renewables and to highlight what can be
done to protect Antarctica. To this end, during the Covid lockdown, he learnt to fly a plane and bought a Wittman W8 Tailwind aircraft which will eventually be converted to electric.
Based in Brisbane he is presently the Senior State Anthropologist for the Queensland Government and in his spare time studies acting and flies in his plane.
Website: www.captainantarctica.com.au
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/captainantarctica
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/captainantarcticatribe
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